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Calendar year
The
Church of England separates.
Year 1534 (
MDXXXIV ) was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
Martin Luther 's 1534
Bible .
January–June
January 15 – The
Parliament of England passes the
Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession , recognising the marriage of
Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn , and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.
[1]
February 23 – A group of
Anabaptists , led by
Jan Matthys ,
seize
Münster ,
Westphalia and declare it The New Jerusalem , begin to exile dissenters, and forcibly baptize all others.
c.
March – The
Portuguese crown divides
Colonial Brazil into fifteen
donatory captaincies .
March 30 –
Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 becomes law in England, requiring
Submission of the Clergy , that is, churchmen are to submit to the king and the publication of ecclesiastical laws without royal permission is forbidden.
April 5 (
Easter Sunday) –
Anabaptist
Jan Matthys is killed by the
Landsknechte , who laid siege to
Münster on the day he predicted as the
Second Coming of
Christ . His follower
John of Leiden takes control of the city.
April 7 – Sir
Thomas More is confined in the
Tower of London .
May 10 –
Jacques Cartier explores
Newfoundland , while searching for the
Northwest Passage .
June 9 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the
Gulf of St Lawrence .
June 23 –
Copenhagen opens its gates to Count
Christopher of Oldenburg , leading the army of
Lübeck (and the
Hanseatic League ), nominally in the interests of the deposed King
Christian II of Denmark . The surrenders of Copenhagen and, a few days later, of
Malmö represent the high point of the
Count's War for the forces of the League. These victories presumably lead the Danish nobility to recognize
Christian III as King on
July 4 .
[2]
[3]
June 29 –
Jacques Cartier discovers
Prince Edward Island .
July–December
July 4 – The
Election of Christian III , as
King of Denmark , takes place in the town of
Rye .
July 7 – The first known exchange occurs between Europeans and natives of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence , in
New Brunswick .
July 20 –
Cambridge University Press is given a Royal Charter by
Henry VIII of England , and becomes the first of the
privileged presses .
[4]
August 15 –
Ignatius of Loyola and six others take the vows that lead to the establishment of the
Society of Jesus , in
Montmartre (Paris).
August 26 –
Piero de Ponte becomes the 45th Grandmaster of the
Knights Hospitaller .
October 13 –
Pope Paul III succeeds
Pope Clement VII , as the 220th
pope .
[5]
October 18 –
Huguenots post placards all over
France attacking the Catholic
Mass , provoking a violent sectarian reaction (
Affair of the Placards ).
November 3 –
December 18 – The
English Reformation Parliament passes the
Act of Supremacy , establishing
Henry VIII as supreme head of the
Church of England .
[1]
December 6 – Over 200 Spanish settlers, led by
conquistador
Sebastián de Belalcázar , found what becomes
Quito ,
Ecuador .
Date unknown
Births
Archduchess Eleanor of Austria
January 6 –
Pavao Skalić , Croatian
encyclopedist ,
Renaissance humanist and adventurer (d.
1575 )
February 5 –
Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian writer, composer and soldier (d.
1612 )
February 10 –
Song Ikpil , Korean scholar (d.
1599 )
March 19 –
José de Anchieta , Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil (d.
1597 )
April 18 –
William Harrison , English clergyman (d.
1593 )
June 15 –
Henri I de Montmorency , Marshal of France (d.
1614 )
June 23 –
Oda Nobunaga , Japanese warlord (d.
1582 )
July 1 – King
Frederick II of Denmark (d.
1588 )
July 3 –
Myeongjong of Joseon , ruler of Korea (d.
1567 )
July 18 –
Zacharius Ursinus , German theologian (d.
1583 )
August 29 –
Nicholas Pieck , Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr (d.
1572 )
September 24 –
Guru Ram Das , fourth
Sikh Guru (d.
1581 )
October 4 –
William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen (d.
1597 )
October 18 –
Jean Passerat , French writer (d.
1602 )
November 2 –
Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (d.
1594 )
November 6 –
Joachim Camerarius the Younger , German scientist (d.
1598 )
November 17 –
Karl I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , German prince (d.
1561 )
November 26 –
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (d.
1613 )
December 16 –
Lucas Osiander the Elder , German pastor (d.
1604 )
December 16 –
Hans Bol , Flemish artist (d.
1593 )
date unknown
Deaths
Pope Clement VII
January 9 –
Johannes Aventinus , Bavarian historian and philologist (b.
1477 )
January 25 –
Magdalena of Saxony (b.
1507 )
February 15 –
Barbara Jagiellon , duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (1500–1534) (b.
1478 )
March 5 –
Antonio da Correggio , Italian painter (b.
1489 )
March 17 –
Vojtěch I of Pernstein , Bohemian nobleman (b.
1490 )
March 19 –
Michael Weiße , German theologian (b. c.
1488 )
April 5 –
Jan Matthys , German
Anabaptist reformer
April 20 –
Elizabeth Barton , English prophet and nun (executed) (b.
1506 )
May 3 –
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez , Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (b.
1481 )
June 14 –
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , Bengali mystic (b.
1486 )
June 27 –
Hille Feicken , Dutch Anabaptist
August 3 –
Andrea della Valle , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1463 )
August 9 –
Thomas Cajetan , Italian theologian and cardinal (b.
1470 )
August 21 –
Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , 44th Grandmaster of the
Knights Hospitaller (b.
1464 )
September 7 –
Lazarus Spengler , German hymnwriter (b.
1479 )
September 24 –
Michael Glinski , Lithuanian prince (b. c.
1470 )
September 25 –
Pope Clement VII (b.
1478 )
[8]
October 31 –
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b.
1476 )
November 7 –
Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso , Portuguese nobleman (b.
1507 )
November 8 –
William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy , scholar and patron (b. c. 1478)
November 23 –
Beatriz Galindo , Spanish Latinist and scholar (b.
1465 )
[9]
December 9 –
Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg , German nobleman (b.
1508 )
December 27 –
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder , Florentine architect (b.
1453 )
date unknown
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